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...very pleasant case of plagiarism has leaked out at the State University of California. The Berkleyan Society recently made arrangements for publishing a collection of verses by students .While the volume was in the printer's hands it was discovered that one of the sonnets by an undergraduate damsel was "boned" bodily from Coleridge. Later, when the sheets of three hundred copies had been struck off, another sonnet, stolen from a well known English poet, was found. The sheets were destroyed and the disgusted printer was forced a third time to make up the book...
...vital energy wasted! Such is the sentiment with which we read the Berkleyan's pulverization of Carlyle. "The War of Independence," "Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century" furnish the pellets of a charge more remarkable for vigor than originality. We scarce remember to have seen, however, a more startling sense given to the metaphor of the feast of reason than when the writer likens Harvard degrees to the nectar of the gods, Harvard University to Vulcan exciting ridicule by playing Hebe, and Mr. Carlyle to a "little European godkin...
...thank the Berkleyan for its polite and sensible notice of our criticism on the Record's poetry...
...with pleasure that we clip the following from the Berkleyan, published at the University of California...
...tremble before the scientific knowledge of the Berkleyan. One of its poets comes out this month with a poem on the Mauvaises Terres, and freely slings in flowing rhythm such terms as "Cenozoic twilight," "sutured skull," and "circumambient walls . . . . with alkaloid surcharged." Now, we can understand such an expression as "sepulchral tomb," - indeed, the meaning is only too plain, - but when it comes to "Oreodon" and "Titanotherium," - if this goes on, new metres will have to be devised with special reference to the scientific dictionary. We recommend this poem as a syllabus to all who elect Natural History...
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